Uskottavia

Uskottavia is the plural partitive form of the Finnish adjective uskottava, meaning credible, believable, or plausible. It is used to describe statements, evidence, or explanations that the speaker considers credible. The form commonly appears when the noun it modifies is in the partitive case or when referring to multiple items in a general sense, for example in a sentence like "Nämä viitteet ovat uskottavia."

Morphology and related forms: The base form is uskottava. Other common inflections for the same adjective include uskottavat (plural nominative), uskottavaa (singular partitive), and uskottavia (plural partitive). These forms allow the word to agree with different nouns and syntactic contexts in Finnish.

Etymology and meaning: The word derives from the noun usko, meaning belief, with the suffix -ttava, which forms adjectives that indicate something that is worthy of belief or capable of being believed. Thus uskottava and its inflected forms convey a sense of believability or plausibility.

Usage and nuance: Uskottavia typically appears in evaluative or descriptive contexts, such as journalism, research, or everyday discussion, to indicate that a claim or piece of information is believable. It does not imply absolute truth, only a degree of credibility as judged by the speaker. In Finnish, related terms include luotettava (reliable, trustworthy) and uskottava (credible in general).

See also: luotettava, usko, uskottava.